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She Finds Flow: Don’t Get SAD this Autumn/Winter - How to Use Sunlight & Exercise to Boost Mood & Vitality
In this episode, Angela explores how to use sunlight and exercise to enhance your health, energy, and mood. She breaks down simple, science-backed strategies to sync your daily routine with your body’s natural rhythms, boosting hormonal balance, sleep quality, and overall performance. By understanding the role of morning sunlight, red light therapy, and optimally timed workouts, you’ll learn how to build habits that keep you feeling your best throughout the year.
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In this episode, Angela explores how to use sunlight and exercise to enhance your health, energy, and mood. She breaks down simple, science-backed strategies to sync your daily routine with your body’s natural rhythms, boosting hormonal balance, sleep quality, and overall performance. By understanding the role of morning sunlight, red light therapy, and optimally timed workouts, you’ll learn how to build habits that keep you feeling your best throughout the year.
Key Takeaways
Morning sunlight stabilises your circadian rhythm, boosts mood, and helps regulate hormones. Aim for 5-10 minutes of exposure within an hour of waking, even on cloudy days.
Red light therapy is great for combating Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), enhancing energy production, and supporting skin health during darker months.
Low-intensity workouts in the morning improve energy and mood, while high-intensity training in the late afternoon leverages optimal body temperature and lowers injury risk.
Spending 10-15 minutes outside around solar noon helps your body produce vitamin D, boosting immunity, mood, and bone health.
Watching the sunset helps your body wind down by triggering melatonin production, promoting relaxation and preparing you for restful sleep.
Outdoor workouts combine the benefits of UV and infrared light, enhancing muscle growth and recovery, while boosting mood and energy.
Timestamps and Key Topics
00:05 - Introduction: From corporate lawyer to health coach
02:50 - The science of morning light and its impact on health
07:10 - Red light therapy for improving energy and reducing inflammation
10:02 - Incorporating light exposure into exercise routines
12:20 - Teaser: Ideal times for outdoor activity for circadian alignment
12:35 - Ideal times for outdoor activity to optimise health
15:20 - The impact of midday sun on vitamin D production
18:35 - Best times to exercise for peak performance
21:15 - Using sunset light to signal the end of the day
23:50 - Summary of daily routines to support natural rhythms
28:38 - Closing and final remarks
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The High-Performance Health Podcast is all about optimising your body, mind and lifestyle for high performance.
Packed full of actionable insights, strategies, bio hacks, lifestyle hacks, mindset strategies and expert performance advice, Angela Foster is on a mission to optimise your human potential. Featuring interviews with some of the top experts on the planet in the fields of health, performance and business, this show aims to inspire, educate and empower you to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.
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Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
Angela is a functional nutrition practitioner and executive health & performance coach.
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